All the events hitherto related in Bk.

III, after the first paragraph, are a digression in retrospect.
(2) M.conjectures that this was a certain Harald, the bastard son of Erik the Good, and a wild and dissolute man, who died in 1135, not long before the probable date of Saxo's birth.
(3) Shakespere's tragedy, "Hamlet", is derived from this story..